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I should have loved electrical engineering

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157 points tdhttt | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ryandrake ◴[04 Sep 25 10:57 UTC] No.45125823[source]▶
The EE component of my CSE degree felt like a math degree in disguise. Calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, discrete mathematics... It was a long time ago but I remember it as three years of math prerequisites and Maxwell’s equations and then finally we could learn what a MOSFET is. Absolutely terrible. I just want to learn how circuits work and how to build a guitar amp! But noooooo I need to learn how to solve partial differential equations, which I’ve done zero times in the field.
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1. whstl ◴[04 Sep 25 14:30 UTC] No.45127690[source]▶
I also just wanted to build a guitar amp.

I worked with EE for a while and it was very boring building stuff.

It basically took me changing careers to SWE and working for a games company to finally use the math part of my EE degree.

I ended up building my guitar amp years after.